award winners | Explore Book Seller

While there are many different literary awards, in the opinion of the professionals at Explore Booksellers, a handful standout as the most critically demanding and prestigious -- making winners of those awards a sure bet if you’re looking for a truly great book to read. For your next great read you may want consider the books that have won:

The Caldecott Medal – the best illustrated American children’s picture book.
The Newbery Award – for the author of the best American book for children.
The Man Booker Prize – the best English language novel by a citizen of a Commonwealth nation or the Republic of Ireland.
The Pulitzer Prize for literature – the best American fiction, nonfiction, biography/autobiography, history and poetry

Thank you to the readers of Mountain Living magazine for naming Explore the "Best Bookstore in the High Country (from Tuscon AZ to north of the Canadian border; Denver to California.) We strive to offer a unique bookstore experience. We're glad you like it.

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1,000 Dollars & an Idea

Explore Booksellers may be a quaint independent bookstore, but when it comes to business there is nothing quaint about its owner. Over the past half-century self-made billionaire Sam Wyly has reshaped the American business landscape. (Fortune Magazine called him the most important entrepreneur of the 20th century.) Sam's memoir, 1,000 Dollars & an Idea is a business book... an economic history of modern America... and an entertaining tale of the American Dream. It's selling fast at bookstores across the country. But if you want a signed first edition, order it from the author's bookstore.

Click here to order an author autographed copy.

Official Bookseller of Aspen Summer Words

Explore is the place to get books by this year's Aspen Writers' Foundation Summer Words guest authors -- leading authors from around the word.

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We are back !!!

And yes we changed the decor and food.

Escape is truly different.

Veggie-centric food. Fresh, sustainable and organic.

TRY OUR LOCAL LUNCH every day!

We will soon update our website with lunch and dinner menus.

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